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Diving headlong into the matter of economic inequalities in Kenya, Economic History doctoral student Valeria Lukkari looks at what factors drive these disparities. You are about to defend your thesis “Economic Disparities in Colonial Kenya – Income Inequality and Wage Differentiation”, what is the thesis about?My thesis project reconstructs and explains the long-run income inequality trends in Ken

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-valeria-lukkari - 2026-07-21

We would like to invite you to the 17th annual conference of the Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society (NAJS), which will be held at, the European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, 15-16 June 2023. For our 2023 Stockholm conference we invite paper proposals on topics related to modern and contemporary Japanese society, including economy and b

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/call-papers-17th-najs-conference-15-16-june-2023 - 2026-07-21

Universal school lunch programs make students healthier, and increase their lifetime income by 3%, according to a unique study from Lund University in Sweden published in The Review of Economic Studies. Health disparities arise early in life and play a major role in economic outcomes among adults. Yet there are few studies on the long-term effects of school-based nutrition policies aimed at counte

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/free-and-nutritious-school-lunches-help-create-richer-and-healthier-adults - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Research has shed new light on the impact of humans on Earth’s biodiversity. The findings suggest that the rate of change in an ecosystem’s plant-life increases significantly during the years following human settlement, with the most dramatic changes occurring in locations colonized in the last 1500 years.  An interna

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/study-reveals-extent-human-impact-worlds-plant-life - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History is offering a PhD Position in ‘Negotiating Conversion and Family Law in Eighteenth Century Dutch Colonial Sri Lanka’. Deadline is May 28, 2017. From September 1, 2017, the Leiden University Institute for History will be appointing a PhD for a four-year pe

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/phd-position-available-leiden-university-institute-history - 2026-07-21

On 15 June 2023, the University approved changes to the guidelines for granting and taking out partial pensions. The new guidelines cover all those who apply for and start to receive a partial pension as of 1 January 2024.   The partial pension agreement for government employees from 2003 has meant a favourable option for government employees to have a flexible working life before full retirement.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-guidelines-partial-pensions - 2026-07-22

New excavations have coaxed more secrets from Gribshunden, the flagship of the Danish-Norwegian King Hans which mysteriously sank in 1495 off the coast of Ronneby, Sweden. The wreck is internationally significant as the world’s best-preserved ship from the Age of Exploration – a proxy for the vessels of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama. During August and September, a scientific team from Lun

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cutting-edge-science-reveals-gribshundens-shipwrecked-secrets - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hello there, Pål Stenmark, Professor of Structural Biochemistry at the Department of Experimental Medical Science. You’ve just been honoured with the 2021 Lindblomska Award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for you discovery of a new botox poison that wards off malaria mosquitoes! Can you really use botox aga

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/botox-ward-mosquitoes - 2026-07-21

Paul O'Shea has written an article in the Conversation analyzing Covid exceptionalism in the cases of Japan and Sweden. The article examines national exceptionalism in political and media rhetoric in Japan and Sweden since the onset of the pandemic. It finds that Japanese exceptionalism was 'classic exceptionalism', insofar as the rhetoric highlighted particular elements of Japanese culture meanin

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-conversation-japan-sweden-and-covid-exceptionalism - 2026-07-21

Kan mode någonsin bli hållbart? Hur ställer vi om till miljösmart e-handel? Och vilken roll ska universiteten ha i framtidens samhälle? Det är några av de ämnen som diskuteras under forskningsfestivalen Our Future City den 7-10 juni på Campus Helsingborg. Evenemanget görs tillsammans med Helsingborgs Dagblad och FoU Helsingborg och sker under den stora stadsmässan H22. Our Future City kan enklast

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/hallbara-stader-och-samhallen-i-fokus-pa-ny-forskningsfestival - 2026-07-21

The National Molecular Medicine Fellows Program - NMMP - is a collaborative program between the four Wallenberg centres and SciLifeLab that was established in 2017. The aims of the program is to improve scientific networks and collaborations across Sweden, as well as to increase the awareness and accessibility of the cutting-edge infrastructure at SciLifeLab.  Over the years, the four sites of WCM

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/nmmp-annual-scientific-conference-2023 - 2026-07-21

Sindre Gade Viksand has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'A World of Persons'. Congratulations! Abstract This is a study of subjecthood in international thought. Human beings and states, while often held to be opposed to one another, share this: they are international thought’s key subjects. The following chapters attempt to answer the question of why that is. The main argument advanced i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sindre-gade-viksand-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The travel group Ggumtle Airplane recently ‘landed’ at Lund University to discuss core values in education and their relation to wider values in society with the students at the Centre of East and South-East Asian Studies. On the 16th of January 2020, the Centre of East and Southeast Asian Studies of Lund University h

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visit-south-korea-opened-discussion-core-values-swedish-education-system - 2026-07-21

There were no differences in quality of life, symptoms, hospital admissions or mortality between a group of patients with pulmonary disease and low oxygen levels in the blood that received oxygen therapy at home for 24 hours a day, and a group that received the same therapy for 15 hours a day, according to a study from Lund University in Sweden. “This has considerable significance for patients wit

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/no-benefits-24-hour-compared-15-hour-oxygen-therapy - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The owlet, little over three weeks old, squints slightly as Hannah Watson lays it on its back in a plastic container that once held vanilla ice cream. It seems quite happy there. Things get a little trickier when the owlet is to be measured, weighed and swabbed for bacterial samples from both front and behind. Finally

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tracking-owls-send-sms-their-nests - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lars Palm is the new head of Lund University’s division for commissioned education, LUCE. His most recent position was at Tetra Pak where he worked for nearly 20 years. However, his connection to the University is strong. It was here that he graduated with a Master of Engineering degree, later completing a PhD in Meas

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-job-lars-palm-head-division-lund-university-commissioned-education-luce - 2026-07-21

Several researchers at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies were doing field work during the Arab Spring. It has left deep traces in them - but also resulted in new research projects. The Arab Spring is a term describing the uprisings that started in several countries in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. The first one took place in Tunisia and was then followed by unrest in Egypt

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arab-spring-ten-years-after - 2026-07-21

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-research-track-higher-amounts-dietary-fibre-age-two-can-reduce-later-risk-coeliac-disease - 2026-07-21

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-research-track-higher-amounts-dietary-fibre-age-two-can-reduce-later-risk-coeliac-disease - 2026-07-21

Several of the Faculty's departments will elect a new department board this year. It is a long process that is preceded by nominations and elections to a nomination committee. In parallel, the process of appointing a new Head of Department is also ongoing. But what does the board do and why is it important to participate in the process? Here is what our Heads of department say. Why is it important

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/department-board-drives-development-and-reviews-management - 2026-07-21